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n i/npsses NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

JOSEPH ARTHUR VERNET, OF DH ON, FRANCE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 543,275, dated July 23, 1895.

Application filed February 9, 1895. Serial No. 537,817. (No model.) Patented in France July 28, 1894, No. 240,356, and in Belgium December 28, 1894,151'0. 113,376.

- for Shearing Channel and other Like Irons,

(for which I have obtained Letters Patent of France, dated July 23, 1894, No. 240,356, and of Belgium, No. 113,376, dated December 28, 1894,) of which the following is'a specification.

This invention relates to a new shearingmachine to be worked by manual power or by a motor, and designed to cut channel irons,

rails, angle-irons, and other irons of special section, wherein is employed a stationary and a movable cutter, each of which embraces the iron to be out upon all sides, the movable cutter moving axially about the iron and severing the same with ashearing cut.

I have shown, by way of example, in the accompanying drawings the arrangement I have adopted, whilereserving to myself the right to modify the same as practice may suggest.

Figure 1 is an elevation of the shearingmachine ready for cutting. Fig. 2 shows the same at the moment that an iron has been cut.

The machine comprises two side pieces or checks A B of wrought or cast iron held one against the other by screw-bolts J fixed in the side piece A, which rests on two legs. Each side piece or check carries blades or tools 0 shaped to correspond to the kind of irons to be cut.

I pass the bar to be cut into the space D for its reception between the tools and cause the movable side piece B to turn, or pivot by mechanism acting on racks E E, this side piece taking for its axis the bar to be out,

of the work to be done, one end of the mov-' able side piece or cheek may be kept stationary or partly so, or one of the ends of this check may be caused to turn more quickly than the other.

The racks for actuating the movable side piece are driven by pinions rotated by wormgearing, but any other convenient arrangement of mechanism for actuating the movable side piece may be employed.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is r In a machine for shearing metal bars, the

combination with a stationary and a movable bar, substantiallyas described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscrib ing witnesses. I

JOSEPH ARTHUR VERNET.

Witnesses:

CLYDE SHROPSHIRE, J. P. Loan. 

